Zaha Hadid's first major U.S. commission goes under the microscope in Cincinnati

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of its opening, Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is staging an exhibition that traces the artistic development and influence of its late designer, Dame Zaha Hadid.  Hadid’s own paintings and early-career work will be placed in conversation with the work of artists who cite her as an inspiration in a “multi-layered” exhibition organized by Guggenheim Bilbao curator Maite Borjabad.  Beginning with examples that Borjabad says “created a new aesthetic regime that prefigured digital renderings, [at] a time when those technologies did not even exist,” the exhibition then shifts to a selection of site-specific works especially commissioned by the museum which in turn respond to its “urban carpet” layout and the legacy of the architect, who was the first woman ever to design a major museum in the United States. Read the full post on Bustler

Zaha Hadid's first major U.S. commission goes under the microscope in Cincinnati

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of its opening, Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is staging an exhibition that traces the artistic development and influence of its late designer, Dame Zaha Hadid

Hadid’s own paintings and early-career work will be placed in conversation with the work of artists who cite her as an inspiration in a “multi-layered” exhibition organized by Guggenheim Bilbao curator Maite Borjabad. 

Beginning with examples that Borjabad says “created a new aesthetic regime that prefigured digital renderings, [at] a time when those technologies did not even exist,” the exhibition then shifts to a selection of site-specific works especially commissioned by the museum which in turn respond to its “urban carpet” layout and the legacy of the architect, who was the first woman ever to design a major museum in the United States. 

Read the full post on Bustler